“The internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans in WWII is one of the darkest and most controversial chapters of th American history. After the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 , 1941, Japanese Americans were detained without trial and without committing a crime, solely based on the assumption that it was necessary for national security. In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 allowing for the creation of military zones that could exclude certain civilians. In practice, this led to the forced relocation and internment of more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps for the duration of the war. Wartime hysteria and racial prejudice pushed the country’s leadership to violate rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Even when these injustices were brought to the country’s highest court in the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court justices ruled that “military necessity” outweighed the civil rights of Japanese Americans.”
They were concentration camps. The Japanese were forced to give up their land and property. It violated the constitution.
The United States and the Soviet Union began building up
their military forces very quickly.
This led to a nuclear arms race whereby the two countries
competed for supremacy in nuclear warfare. The result was that each acquired
enough warfare to completely destroy the other resulting in a Mutually Assured
Destruction state of affairs
